On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 5:06 AM, Graham Lauder <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 09:58:44 Andrew Rist wrote: > > On 8/3/2011 2:27 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Marcus (OOo)<[email protected]> > wrote: > > >> Do you mean this? > > >> > > >> http://www.openoffic.org > > >> http://www.openoffic.org/news > > >> > > >> Or which landing pages do you have in mind? > > > > > > An idea: is there any easy way to get it into the header, so it is on > > > every page? Something like "News: Apache OpenOffice.org!" with a > > > link, perhaps to a new blog post. We could first write a blog post, > > > specifically reaching out to OOo community members and telling them > > > how they can get involved. Then, once that is posted, get that link > > > out broadly, via the OOo website, wiki, mailing lists, forums, > > > Facebook page, Twitter, etc. > > > > +1 > > I will take care of updating OOo site when we are ready > > Andrew > > > > > It might make sense to wait until we first do the source migration and > > > have Bugzilla, the wikis and forums migrated. But right around then > > > would be a good time to put out the word. > > > > > > > > > -Rob > > > We should probably be looking at a press release as well as part of that. > We can use the announce@ list simultaneously, the majority of subscribers > of > which, are our target Audience. If people are subscribed to that list > anything sent via that medium can't be considered spam. > Graham-- Are you talking about [email protected]? We had a small discussion about this list a few weeks ago and Marcus pointed out that that list is "moderated ". So...yes, we should definitely use this and hope whoever IS the moderator jsut pushes the announcement through. I don't think we got an answer on this. I'll make some contacts and see what I can determine. > Releases should go just to the tech press to remind them that the project > is > alive and kicking, wider than that is probably not necessary at this stage. > > Next press release after that should be to announce the "Non Apache" > release > if there is going to be one (I've made my feelings on this release known > but > we'll see what the consensus is) > > In the past press releases were hacked about with on the private PR list or > on > occasion the also private MarCon list, for obvious reasons. Is there a > policy > for creating such marketing materials here at Apache. > > Cheers > GL > > > > > > > > >> Marcus > > >> > > >> Am 08/03/2011 09:29 PM, schrieb Shane Curcuru: > > >>> (Taking the opportunity to Refactor a new thread on OpenOffice.org) > > >>> > > >>> Are there any short term plans to update the main landing pages of > the > > >>> existing OpenOffice.org website(s) to provide user awareness of the > > >>> transition of the product and project to Apache? > > >>> > > >>> I don't know 1) how long it will take to actually get this > > >>> transitioned, and 2) how hard it is to update the Oracle-hosted > sites, > > >>> but I think it would be really useful to have a few blurbs about the > > >>> future plans of Apache OpenOffice get put on the existing > > >>> OpenOffice.org site sooner rather than later. > > >>> > > >>> The blog feed on the homepage is nice, but not enough. > > >>> > > >>> Or is this too much for the moment? > > >>> > > >>> - Shane > -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "If you can keep your head when all others around you are losing theirs - maybe you don't fully understand the situation!" -- Unknown
